LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Ship
On the 27th November a boat with four men in her was upset in the entrance to Teignmouth harbour, when attempting to board a vessel coming in.
One man succeeded in getting on board the ship, but the boat herself, with two...
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1895
THE RIGHT HON. LORD TWEEDMOUTH, LORD PRIVY SEAL AND CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER, IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Eight Hon. Lord TWEEDMOUTH.
Seconded by Sir EDWARD BIRK- BBCK, Bart., V.P., Chairman...
Category: Meetings
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 9th October, 1913.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Read the minutes of the Building,...
Category: Committee
Maria, of Dunedin
The ship Maria, of Dunedin, came ashore here during a fresh wind from the 8.E., on the 22nd Jan. An effort was made by the crew to get her off; but a gale springing up from the E., ac- companied by a heavy sea, placed their lives in great...
In Memoriam. Admiral John Ross Ward
BY the death, which took place on the- 23rd June last, of the late Admiral WARD „ in his 77th year, the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION has lost a good friend and a devoted officer. From the time he joined the Committee in February 1852...
Category: Obituaries
Boats
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
The Life-Boat Service In Ireland
SINCE 1924 Mr. Timothy Healy, the Governor-General of the Irish Free State, has been the Patron of the Irish Free State District of the Institution, and when he accepted the Patronship he issued an earnest appeal to the people of the Free...
Category: Articles
Visit to Clovelly: Rudolf Graf Meets Once Again Members of the Crew Who Rescued Him from the Bristol Channel After His Heinkel Bomber Had Been Shot Down (L to R) Ex-
Visit to Clovelly: Rudolf Graf meets once again members of the crew who rescued him from the Bristol Channel after his Heinkel bomber had been shot down. (I. to r.) Ex- Mechanic Charles Shackson, ex-Bowman Oscar Abbott, ex-German Airman... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Riders of the storm – the story of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Riders of the storm – the story of the Royal National
Lifeboat Institution
by Ian Cameron
Review by Carol Waterkeyn
This is a new edition of the hardback book published in...
Category: Articles
A Canoe
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 8.21 P.M.
on the 17th July, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard that a canoe, with a boy on board, had capsized off Ness Point. A gentle S.W.
breeze was blowing, but the...